From Merriam-Webster: "Plural of coniine, or a poisonous alkaloid found in poison hemlock." ...

You'd only know all those words if, like many Scrabble champions, you'd spent months poring over the dictionary, learning names for plant parts and ancient instruments. We dug up the words from ...

We all like to impress our friends, family and teachers with our knowledge of obscure words (OK, OK – some of us more than others). But there are words you almost certainly won’t have heard of.

Parsnip. Magnanimous. Sepulcher. This could be the beginning of a particularly esoteric New York TimesConnections puzzle, but ...

Compiled by the folks at Raconteur, the list includes nouns, adjectives and verbs ranging from the reasonably well-known “flabbergast”, to more obscure words, including “quincunx ...

But do words really ‘die’, and how does that happen? These truly obscure words from Old English, local dialects and even 1990s classics can teach us a lot about why words can disappear.

Once a relatively obscure term you might’ve last encountered ... The internet —TikTok in particular — has a habit of plucking words from obscurity, turning them into memes, and then ...